Plaster-lath clip



. San; 21 1926.

J. F. MAKOWSKI PLASTER LA'IH CLIP Filed No v. 28, 1925 ngvsNToR John E Makowski BY QM Patented Sept. 21, 1925.

' umraosrarss PATENT. OFFICE.

JOHN F. IVIAKOWSKI, OF, STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO CALIFORNIA CEDAR PRODUCTS COMPANY, OF STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA, A CORPORATIOH.

PLASTER-LATI-I CLIP.

Application filed November 28, 1925. Serial No. 71,907.

This invention relates to the building art and particularly to the art of constructing lathing structure for plaster walls particularly of that type shown in my co-pending application for patent upon lathing structure for plaster walls, filed July 2, 1925, Serial No. 40986; the present application being directed to the plaster lath clip per se.

In the erection of the type of plaster lath structure defined in the above identified application it became necessary to have a clip capable of use in fastening the lath strips to the upright studs at whatever points in their length the strips chance to lay across the faces of the studs.

The object therefore of the present invention is to provide a clip which will be capable of embracing the stud at any point along its length and having means to engage the free edges of the lath strip in such a way as to securely bind such strip to the stud at any point of engagement of the latter against the stud.

A further object of the invention is to produce a clip which can be easily and inexpensively made and handled in order to reduce the cost of both to a minimum in order to render the use thereof commerciallypract-icable.

These objects I accomplish by the special construction and arrangement of the clip elements, as will more clearly appear by a perusal of the following specification and claim.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a fragmentary portion. of a lathing structure for plaster walls, showing the application in practice of my improved clip.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a sheet metal blank showing in detail how the blank would be cut in the formation of my improved clip.

Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the clip as it appears when shaped for use from the blank shown in Fig.2.

Fig. 4 is a similar perspective View showing the prongs of the clip as they are bent for engagement with the wall board strips.

Referring now particularly to the characters of reference on the drawings, the clip is preferably formed initially from a fiat piece of galvanized iron or sheet steel or the like as shown clearly in Fig. 2. Two cuts 1 are made therein to form what I will term a central tongue 2 and two prongs 3 and 4. The uncut portion 5 of the blank is then bent at right angles to the prongs 3 and 4 and. the tongue 2 is likewise at right angles to such the portion 5, so that the two portions 2 EtIlC 5 form a back brace or support, with the two prongs 3 and 4 projecting at right angles therefrom with the intermediate slot 6 formed when the tongue 2 is bent out of the plane of the prongs.

In using the clips the small metal studs 7, usually three quarters of an inch wide by three eighths of an inch thick, are erected in position between the floor and ceiling of the building structure. The lath strips 8 are 'thenlaid across the front faces of the studs.

My improved clips are then each embraced prongs in the direction opposite to that around a stud, the flat back support or brace 2-5 engaging the face of the stud opposite to that engaged by the lath strips, the slot 6 receiving the stud and the prongs 3 and 4E projecting beyond the'opposite face of the stud and the edges of the lath strips. If there is only one strip adjacent the prongs they may both be bent over the edge thereof. If however the prongs project between two strips set edge to edge, then one prong is bent up and the other down as shown in Fig. 4. Thus the lath strips are capable of being easily and cheaply clipped to the studs at whatever places they chance to lay across the faces of the studs in a most simple and yet extremely effective manner.

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that I have produced such a device as substantially fulfills the objects of the invention as set forth herein.

lVhile this specification sets forth indetail the present and preferred construction of the device, stillin practice such deviations 7 blank piece of sheet metal provided with a such clip being flat rectangular pair of spaced slits extending into the blank against one side of the stud and the free ends for a predetermined distance to form two of the prongs projecting beyond the oppo- 10 spaced prongs, the two prongs being bent at site side of the stud and over the edges of right angles to the blank to form a slot bethe lath strips and being capable of being tween the prongs with the blank forming a bent over the face of the latter.

flat brace member at the inner ends of the In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature. slot and prongs, the prongs being 0i a length to embrace the stud With the back braced 7 JOHN F. MAKOWSIQ. 

